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On reading compounds

代
【ダイ】
charge, cost, price, generation, age, reign, era, a representative of, on behalf of, for (someone), used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.), proxy application company, pronoun

代官
【ダイカン】
Edo-period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff)

大時代
【オオジダイ】
old-fashioned, antiquated, anachronistic

次代
【ジダイ】
the next era

代謝
【タイシャ】
metabolism, renewal, regeneration, replacing the old with the new

代赭
【タイシャ】
red ocher (ochre)

永代
【エイタイ】
permanence, eternity

希代
【キタイ】
uncommon, rare, extraordinary, matchless

Kun reading compounds

替わる
【かわる】
to succeed, to relieve, to replace, to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent, to hand over (telephone), to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch

代わる代わる
【かわるがわる】
alternately, by turns

替わる
【かわる】
to succeed, to relieve, to replace, to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent, to hand over (telephone), to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch

Kun reading compounds

物
【もの】
thing, object, article, stuff, substance, one's things, possessions, property, belongings, things, something, anything, everything, nothing, quality, reason, the way of things, used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen, item classified as ..., item related to ..., work of ..., cause of ..., cause for ..., somehow, somewhat, for some reason, really, truly